Culture

Is the Parenting Gig Just Too Much Work?0
- Culture
- November 11, 2019
Kate Lawler, a 39-year-old former reality TV star turned broadcaster in the UK and her 35-year-old fiancé have started a podcast for those conflicted about starting a family. It aims to break what they describe as the “taboo” about expressing a desire not to have children. A “light-hearted look at the highs and lows of parenting,” the podcast Maybe
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Why We Must Reclaim Armistice Day 0
- Culture
- November 11, 2019
Once upon a time a self-styled progressive American president who had only just won re-election on the slogan “he kept us out of war,” led the U.S. into the midst of the bloodiest worldwide conflict in history. Europeans dubbed it the Great War. Americans today remember it as World War One, and recall it as
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Four Reasons Why Socialism Is Becoming More Popular 0
- Culture
- November 8, 2019
The newfound openness of large numbers of Americans to socialism is, by now, a well-documented phenomenon. According to a Gallup poll from earlier this year, 43 percent of Americans now believe that some form of socialism would be good thing, in contrast to 51 percent who are still against it. A Harris poll found that four in ten Americans prefer socialism
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The Fall of the Wall and the Rise of Political Correctness 0
- Culture
- November 7, 2019
Thirty years ago this month, there occurred one of those amazing historical moments that stunned the world. The Berlin Wall ceased to exist: On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight
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10 ‘Subversive’ Jokes to Land You in an East German Prison 0
- Culture
- November 7, 2019
Making fun of politicians is an American tradition. Some jokes cross lines of good taste; some are unfair or unfunny. Good taste and humor aside, Americans take it for granted that we can poke fun at politicians and our leaders. What’s the difference between Obama and God? God doesn’t think he is Obama. What does
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Climategate: Ten Years Later 0
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- November 7, 2019
This month marks the tenth anniversary of “Climategate” – the release of thousands of emails to and from climate scientists who had been (and still are) collaborating and colluding to create a manmade climate crisis that exists in their minds and computer models, but not in the real world. The scandal should have ended climate
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